With apologies to gamers, I just think it's too cool not to post this recent low-cost-ish easy-to-add m.2 form-factor fpga that's designed for exploring PCIe DM

With apologies to gamers, I just think it's too cool not to post this recent low-cost-ish easy-to-add m.2 form-factor fpga that's designed for exploring PCIe DMA, the EPIC Erebus. https://www.hackster.io/news/epic-erebus-puts-a-tiny-yet-powerful-fpga-onto-your-pci-express-bus-for-security-research-and-more-c2b830e9e0a0 https://www.hackster.io/news/epic-erebus-puts-a-tiny-yet-pow... Maybe I'd just forgotten, but low key surprised to hear the Lattice Semiconductor ECP5 has a toolchains usable & hobbyist accessible enough to do PCIe on. Gods we would make so much more amazing computing stuff if fpgas weren't kept under lock & key. Sure feels like an awful bad thing that the devices we own are falling more and more under control of the valent forces of the universe about us, that we are losing access to our own systems. I get that it's inconvenient to have users doing what they might and it sucks a lot in gaming, but this seems like such a sad slide down. Gods, for gamign this this drm trend would be such a horrific disaster if Steam Deck wasn't such a fantastic & loved device. Linux is still a couple %, but it feels so much less ignorable with a mobile PC console that just shreds to shit what Windows can do (performance wise & with infinitely better control/input than anything else out there). Right now Big FPS doesn't care, but I feel like as this trend continues we'll see better Linux support for at least some basics.